DPRK FM Spokesman Denounces Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

 Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Friday gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA as regards the fact that the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights pulled up the DPRK over the issue of divided families in the north and the south of Korea:
    The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slandered the DPRK in a "report" on the issue of divided families in the north and the south on Dec. 7, citing all sorts of fabricated information that the north "abducted" someone.
    The DPRK resolutely rejects the above-said "report" peppered with lies and fabrications cooked up by the south Korean authorities published by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights despite its repeated warnings, branding this as hostile act against the DPRK.
    As already the DPRK clarified several times, it has nothing to do with the word of abduction.
    The suspension of the reunion of the divided families and relatives which had been regularly arranged thanks to the positive measures and sincere efforts of the DPRK in the past is entirely attributable to the south Korean authorities' acts of bringing the inter-Korean relations to complete collapse by ceaselessly luring and abducting citizens of the DPRK.
    In April last the south Korean authorities mobilized gangsters of the Intelligence Service to abduct a group of more than 10 women citizens of the DPRK in a foreign country and the chief executive of south Korea openly agitated "defection from the north". This proves that the south Korean authorities are a group of inhumane criminals whose main job is abduction.
    The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights made public the above-said "report" at the time when the south Korean authorities are hit hard from all sides for the "Park Geun Hye scandal". This is the unreasonable action taken by the Office away from the principle of objectivity and impartiality, which keep the Office alive, following the south Korean authorities keen to seek a way out in escalating the north-south confrontation.
    If the Office is truly concerned for the solution of the issue of the divided families and relatives, it should bring charges against the chief executive of south Korea resorting to undisguised agitation of "defection from the north" and the gangsters of the Intelligence Service of south Korea that lured and abducted a group of women citizens of the DPRK in broad daylight, to begin with, and demand the south Korean authorities send back those to the DPRK at once. -0-